Parent iPad Highlight Night

Stars Cluster: iPad Presentation With a good six months into the 8th grade iPad initiative, Blake MS held an iPad Pilot Highlights night for parents to showcase student learning with the 1:1 integration of the iPads, to announce our next year's plans of expanding the pilot, and to allow time for Q & A. Principal Nat Vaughn began by framing the evening with a video that explains the importance of technology integration as we try to prepare students for the 21st century. This led us to the big question of the night, "What do we...

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Student Work: Explaining Everything about Paragraphs

Paragraph Comparisons Mr. The Hellerstein's class has spent several weeks reading and discussing the book, The Crucibles.  Part of the literacy unit included time examining good paragraph writing in preparation when they will write their own essay. When given two paragraphs, Mr. Hellerstein challenged his students to answer the question: Can you spot the better paragraph? To complete the task using their iPad, students followed this work...

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Student Work: Defining Terms

LITERACY: DEFINING TERMS In English Class, the book, The Crucible was filled with symbolism.  Therefore understanding many terms, like Communism and Theocracy helps students build a foundation and background knowledge before they even begin reading the book. This 8th grade student used Educreations, an interactive whiteboard app to describe his understanding of the two terms. Click here to view his movie: Communism and Theocracy (Educreations...

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Student Work: Charles Law by Shakespeare

Check out the work created by Medfield students:  Using the Puppet Pals App to learn about Charles Law Typically to assess students' learning about a science concept, they're given the usual multiple choice /short answer quiz.  Not this time!  With iPads in hand and the Puppet Pal app, students were given the opportunity to expand and to push their imagination by developing a short animated puppet movie instead. Who knew Shakespeare,...

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7 OUTSTANDING BOOKS FOR THE IPAD

This is a repost from the Educational Learning and Mobile Learning Blog  Below is a list of some excellent books for your iPad. I have curated this list over  the last couple of months and I kept adding to it every time I stumble upon a resource somewhere online.I don't know if you like reading books on your iPad or not but let me tell you this: having at least a couple of titles installed on your iPad would really be of great...

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RAZZLE DAZZLING THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE WITH IPADS

The Star Cluster teachers and students gave a presentation of how these dynamic 1:1 mobile devices have impacted their learning and teaching to Medfield's School Committee tonight. The team highlighted organization, accessibility, communication, collaboration and fluid adaptation as five areas of noted enhancement. (The above photo shows students explaining their experiential learning with the iPad.)The School Committe members were also engaged...

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Parent tips: Home Management ideas

At this point in the year, our iPad Pilot team has had the chance to obtain feedback from parents through surveys,  the iPad Technology Parent Night and coffee meet-ups.  Our 1:1 model of allowing students to take their iPads home as created a challenge for some families. Not surprisingly, the most consistent feedback from parents is partly around the management and control of their child's use of the iPad at home... you know, beyond...

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Quick English Quizzes with Poll EveryWhere

Mr. Hellerstein - English I've used the iPad Socrative program quite a few times with vocabulary, creating mini quizzes, mainly multiple choice. These quizzes come in 5 categories: syllabication, parts of speech, spelling, synonyms, antonyms. These mini quizzes are good for assessment purposes. I also use PollEverywhere in my class to assess students at the beginning and end of class. This helps me determine what information...

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Math and Educreations- a perfect combination

Mrs. Perachi - Math So far, in math class, the iPad has been used mostly for organization, demonstrating knowledge, and study skills. The iCal app has been very helpful for students entering daily homework. They have also been able to use it to enter long term assignments. They set reminders for themselves. They have also set an assignment to repeat daily so that it shows on their list of assignments...

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Express Yourself

An example of a student's use of drawing on the iPad. ...

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Our Famous iPadders

Creativity begins here... ...

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